Why does Lower Nanyang come from the southeast?

The geographical concept of Nanyang mainly refers to the vast area including the ten ASEAN countries today. In a broad sense, Nanyang also includes India, Australia, New Zealand and nearby Pacific islands. In the last years of China's feudal dynasty, ordinary people who could not bear the war and former nobles who lost power emigrated overseas. Due to its geographical proximity, Southeast Asia has become a place of immigration and refuge for China immigrants. Therefore, this migration is called "Lower South Asia" in history.

history

China's contacts with Southeast Asia can be traced back to the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago. According to Historical Records, History of Han Geography and other documents, China had contacts with Myanmar, Viet Nam and other countries around 1 century. In the Tang dynasty, immigrants began to increase and were called "Tang people" by local people. But it was not until the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty that China people's road to South Asia became wider and wider.

Several large-scale migrations:

1. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, thousands of China Confucian scholars and military and political officials fled to Vietnam.

2. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people from the Central Plains moved to zhina.

3. In the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao attacked Guangzhou, and Cantonese fled to Southeast Asia.

When the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of adherents also stayed here. 5. At the end of Ming and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, a large number of refugees, peasant troops scattered by Qing soldiers, remnants of Ming army who failed to resist Qing Dynasty, and Ming adherents who were unwilling to work for Qing court set off a climax of emigration to Southeast Asia. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shangchuan, the commander-in-chief of Gao, Lei and Lian, and the deputy commander-in-chief led more than 3,000 family members and more than 50 warships to the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam, so this place was called "Ming Township". From 65438 to 0659, the families of officers and men who followed Emperor Li Yong into exile in Myanmar, some fled to Siam (now Thailand), and some were placed in remote places in Myanmar. Today, Gui and Min in northern Myanmar are descendants of these officers and men.

cause

1. Generally speaking, in the last years of China's feudal dynasty, most of them were accompanied by peasant uprisings, foreign invasions and dynasty changes, and ordinary people who could not bear the war and former nobles who lost power emigrated overseas. Due to its geographical proximity, Southeast Asia has become a place of immigration and refuge for China immigrants.

2. Another important reason why China people go to Nanyang is to change the fate of individuals or families. According to the survey of China Pacific Society 1935, 69.95% of the refugees went abroad because of "economic oppression". At that time, some people who went to Nanyang were full of hope for the future, while others could not stay in their hometown.

3. Nanyang under British and Dutch colonial rule is in the process of accelerated development, and the demand for labor is very great. In order to attract China workers, Southeast Asian countries have successively issued a series of preferential policies. For example, Sarawak, Malaysia's largest state, issued a special notice during the reign of Pope II: giving immigrants enough free land for planting, and the government providing temporary housing to resettle immigrants; Free supply of rice and salt for one year; Provide transportation, set up police stations to protect the safety of Chinese, and Chinese can live permanently in Sarawak. Such a policy is very attractive to unemployed refugees who have lost their land in China. It was at this time that many people traveled across the ocean to Nanyang, either with their wives or alone.

Culturally, the Chinese nation is a farming nation. The biggest feature of farming people is that they like to stick to one acre and three points, and are willing to live a quiet life of "wife and children fever". It really takes a lot of courage to be a wanderer far from home, work hard and explore the new world.